This is Utau Neko's account, I've just changed my name(Yes, I can do that without your permission) and I've decided to try again with this story. Let's see how this goes shall we?

For Lucy, it was like any other morning after a mission…. except one thing was missing…Team Natsu. It had been months since the other members of Team Natsu had spoken to her, even longer since they had been on a mission together. The cause of all this? The newest addition to the 'family', Lisanna. Not that she blamed anyone, if her mother had come back she'd be over the moon with joy.. but she wouldn't ignore her friends for months on end. Not that they'd let her either, sneaking into her house, pulling her along to odd jobs, even dragging her into guild fights! But now it was as if she never walked into their lives, as if she had only been a replacement for someone.

A beautiful blond was balancing along the edges of the river in front of her home, her hair tied back into a side ponytail as an odd snowman creature followed her. The snowman hopped up and down in a goofy effort to make the blond smile, and cheered "Pun pun~" when the teen smiled. Her chocolate brown eyes shone as her gaze stretched down the river, her gait halting as a thoughtful expression took over her face. It had been months since she's had her apartment broken into by her 'teammates', and despite them hurting her and leaving her it hurt no less to have what was a beautiful friendship broken and forgotten. 'But where there is darkness, there will also be light...' She thought to herself with a frail smile.

A porcelain pale hand drifted down to graze against a key chain full of gold and silver keys, except these were no ordinary keys-no- these were keys to another dimension, ones that summoned great spirits of extraordinary power and untold knowledge, and their owner was none other than 'Lucky' Lucy Heartfilia.

Now Lucy Heartfilia was a unique mage, only three others of her kind existed in the land of Fiore, but she was without a doubt the strongest of them all, not only in strength, but in heart. And like all hearts, be they walled up and hidden or worn on a sleeve, her heart was delicate. Ever since she had been left behind by her guild mates she trained with her spirits such as Loke and Capricorn, learned to protect her heart a little better, and gained new ones along the way.

As if he was summoned by his owner merely thinking of him, Loke shimmered into sight while waving a 'I 3 Lucy' flag. "Have you finally admitted your love for me?" He purred playfully with a wink, "I knew you'd come around, princess."

Lucy rolled her eyes in undisguised amusement before placing a hand on her hip. "Not in this millennia, only thinking about how far I've come since.." Her words trailed off,a pained look came over her face as memories best left alone came to the front of her head.

Sensing the oncoming depressed mood, Loke grabbed her hands and pulled his mistress into a comforting hug. "There can be no progress without pain, and no accomplishments without loss Lucy… But you'll always have your real family to lean back on no matter what happens." He whispered softly as he ran his fingers through her silken locks, it being one of the best ways to brighten her mood when she thought about them.

"Thank you Loke, but I'm fine now… I have all of you." Lucy gave a weak laugh before pulling away from the hug, her usually bright and cheerful eyes misty with unshed tears of loss and pain. She brought a hand up to wipe away the moisture and attempt a real smile. "Thank you, Loke." The blonde mage hugged her spirit one last time before pulling away.

She knew she had come so far in her time of separation from her 'team' and gained many valuable friends in the process such as: Vulpecula-the little fox, Ursa Major-the big bear, Canis Major-the great dog, Auriga-the charioteer, Apus-the paradise bird, and Canes Venatici-the hunting dogs. Granted Loke and Canis argued more often than not, but when put to the test they made an amazing team.

'Since I've been going solo as of late I have gotten stronger, and gained a few more keys like Ursa Major and Canis.' She thought with a smile as she carefully walk along the water's edge, thinking of how much her family has grown and how much stronger she'd become, even if some of her spirits got into a few fights. A couple familiar voices shouted her name, causing warm brown to look up and have their owner wave at the fishermen's warning to be careful. After assuring them that she'd be fine and to have a nice day, Lucy think about how this happened, how she became so hated by the majority of the guild. How she became so forgotten that it was a wonder that she didn't remove her guild mark by now. Heck, Mavis gets more attention than her and she was the guild's ghost..

As I stand in front of the guild I prepare myself and cling to the minuscule piece of hope that all this time was bad dream, and everything will go back to the way it was. Chocolate brown eyes closed as I began to pray, 'Please see me, please open your eyes.' I begged whoever was listening before opening my course I crossed my fingers on one hand as I use the other to open the guild doors and walk in. As usual I say my guild-wide greeting ,with a smile, and see that only Mavis returned the greeting. 'I'm driving myself crazy, I need to stop this.' I thought with a soft chuckle of self pity. 'I'm tired of trying to be normal..' my hair fell in front of my face as I shook my head and walked towards the bar for my breakfast.

"Hey First." I looked at 1st Master Mavis with a fading smile and sat down on one of the stools at the bar before looking at Mira with a hopeful shine in my eyes. "Hey Mira can I have my milkshake?" As usual, I was ignored for another new member whose name I couldn't remember. With another sigh on the way, I used my whip from virgo and used it to get one of the already prepared milkshakes to drink. Leaning down to sip at the beverage I scrunched my nose at the flavor, cherry, ew. Mavis turned to face me directly and smiled before asking in a soft voice, "Hey Lucy are you ok? You haven't been to the guild as of late."

"Yeah I'm fine. Just, tired." I replied almost absently, thinking of what I could have been doing if /they/ were with me like they used to.

"How's rent recently?" She asked me with a faint look of worry, it flashing through her eyes so quickly I almost missed it.

"I should be set for a couple months with a bit of spending money." I say smiling, it's been a while since I didn't have to worry about rent, and now that I'm a solo mage I don't lose money on missions to Natsu and Gray's fights, the downfall to being a solo mage is that it gets pretty lonely during the train rides. When Mira passed by me to get something I slid the proper amount of jewels for the shake towards her and hope that she saw them before I left. She didn't see them as she went to go to serve another member. I lean down to sip at the drink and sigh before I peer behind me to look at Team Natsu- they seem to be just fine with the fact that Lissana is with them and I'm not.

"Hey, Mavis, where's the others?" I ask First in a soft tone as I chewed on a cherry bit that wasn't blended all the way.

"Oh yeah, Levy went on a week long mission with Gajeel and Pantherlily, Wendy took Carla with her so they can train to get stronger." Mavis rubbed my arm before pulling away and slowly kicking her legs as she tried to keep her upbeat tone.

"Oh."

"Lucy…. you've got to tell them someday."

She's right, if I don't tell my team then I'll get scolded by Erza for not telling her something, or worse, getting kicked off Team Natsu. "I will... eventually." I mumbled and put my beats on and start playing 'Stronger~Adele'. What are we talking about? The fact that I'm the strongest Celestial Spirit Mage alive and a partial Requip Mage, and have never told anyone-besides Mavis. but it's First so… After the GMG I was going to tell the guild about my other powers, but then I was ignored by almost everyone and I never got the chance to tell them. Now that I think about it, I don't have to tell them anything anyway. 'I tell me teammates what goes on with me, and they aren't my teammates anymore.' And, with that thought, a sense of freedom and relief came over me like I've never felt before.

As I stood up to tell Mavis of my decision, suddenly the guild doors open and everyone's heads turn to a familiar looking girl, to me at least, with mocha skin, butt-length red-brown hair held by a pink ribbon in a messy high pony tail and deep blue-green eyes, wearing alight pink sweater with princess sleeves at the shoulder, with a darker pink belt that has a golden flower on it, a black short mini skirt, and black knee high army boots. She looks around the guild in disgust apparently looking for somebody, until her eyes land on me. She smiles and starts waking towards me as if we're long lost friends.

I stand up when she gets to about ten feet away, and she hugs me when she reaches me, as if she's afraid that I'll disappear, then I hear it, the snarky voices 'who's she?', 'Why is she with her?', I promise you if I wasn't so used to it I'd probably Lucy Kick the nearest person. All of a sudden I hear her say, "It's really you." so softly that if I wasn't so close to her I wouldn't hear her. It was as I was to ask her if she meant me that Natsu shouted out, "Who is she and what's she doing with Lucy?" I would be lying if I said my heart didn't break when I heard him say Lucy instead of Luce, yes I'm not their teammate but I thought that we'd still be friends. That was when the girl let go of me and faced everyone with a face full of well hidden anger. "Alright nerds I'll say this once so listen up!" She shouted to the masses in the building, causing most everyone there to pause. 'Well isn't she blunt.' "Until Lucy remembers my name, I ain't sayin', thats all you need to know." Yup, blunt. She turns back to me, "It's been so long since I've seen you the only way I could find you was by scent and your hair." I looked at her with a blank expression.

She smiled at me and said with a hand on my shoulder, "Come on, You've got to remember me... the second member of the legendary duo Heavenly Storm?" Her eyes took on a hopeful shine that was mixed with a bit of desperation as I thought about it. The name sounded familiar and I tell her. Then she took a couple steps back and began to sing, "Little Lu-Lu I love you-you just the same~."

'Wait a minute, only one girl is sings that…'

"Arashi?"

Well, now that that's over, how was it?

Good? Bad? Smurfin' Awesome?

RxR

please?~